Media has always been sensitive to technological advances. The printing press changed things. The telegraph changed things. Television changed things. The internet seems to be changing everything. When we started The Coast, in pre-internet June 1993, we were six friends from the University of King’s College—the two of us, plus Andy Lamey, Andy Pedersen, Aran […]
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Misinformation mine: Facebook shuts down Halifax man’s pro-Trump trade
For the past three years, Nicholas Kingsland has made his income sharing hyper-partisan news stories about American politics on social media. His livelihood involves spreading polarizing content across multiple Facebook pages to an easily riled, mostly right-wing audience—generating revenue by sharing links and driving high volumes of traffic to other websites. But Kingsland isn’t mining this […]
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Don’t @ me: Why Halifax police are turning to social media to improve public relations
The day before Valentine’s Day, during a severe snowfall, the @HfxRegPolice Twitter account sent out a reminder to residents that it’s illegal to walk on the street. “No, that’s not what the law says at all,” responded Ben Wedge, a transportation advocate and former member of Halifax’s Crosswalk Safety Advisory Committee. “If you could leave […]
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People want Cindy Day fired because of her Frankie MacDonald comments
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 UPDATE: Day and MacDonald have apparently quashed their beef (see below), so everybody can stop with the wrathful anger now. Happy Valentine’s Day! Last evening, I had a wonderful conversation with Frankie MacDonald . I was so happy I was able to reach him. I wanted… Posted by Cindy Day on Sunday, February 14, 2016 […]
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Closure and the social media accounts of the dead
[Image-1] Over the years, the Facebook community has grown exponentially, and, as life runs its course on all of us, people keep dying. More and more posthumous profiles continue to haunt cyberspace. Whether it’s creepy or comforting, we are the first generation to ever have to deal with it. Twenty-four-year-old Alex Walker lives in Halifax, […]
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Daytime Emmy win for local developer
Not satisfied with merely scaring the sweet bejeezus out of everybody, Halifax based interactive director Jason Nickel of Nickel Digital Experiences and director Jason Zada scored a sweet Daytime Emmy last weekend at the 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA for their Facebook creepfest application Take This Lollipop, […]
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Et Tu, Pixies?
la la love you, don’t mean maybe I dunno if you’re a fan of the Pixies on Facebook, but recently their fan page listed some interesting developments, namely that the band are playing a Canadian tour. More recently, a status update was posted that read: “We can certainly add Halifax NS to the list for […]